BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The prevalence of atrial fibrillation increases with age, but age-specific data on the incidence of stroke and death in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation are more limited, particularly with regard to comparisons of relative risks of clinical outcomes between the different age strata in relation to quality of anticoagulation control among warfarin users. M...

Given any sequence z = (zn)n≥1 of positive real numbers and any set E of complex sequences, we write Ez for the set of all sequences y = (yn)n≥1 such that y/z = (yn/zn)n≥1 ∈ E; in particular, cz denotes the set of all sequences y such that y/z converges. By w∞, we denote the set of all sequences y such that supn≥1(n −1 ∑n k=1 |yk|) < ∞. By ∆ we denote the operator of the first difference define...

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a tool proposed to hide access pattern leakage, and there has been a lot of progress in the efficiency of ORAM schemes; however, less attention has been paid to study the applicability of ORAM for cloud applications such as symmetric searchable encryption (SSE). Although, searchable encryption is one of the motivations for ORAM research, no in-depth study of the applicab...

The spatial pattern of synapse activation may impact on synaptic plasticity. This applies to the synaptically-evoked endocannabinoid-mediated short-term depression at the parallel fiber (PF) to Purkinje cell synapse, the occurrence of which requires close proximity between the activated synapses. Here, we determine quantitatively this required proximity, helped by the geometrical organization o...

Falls and fall related injuries become an emerging health problem among older adults. As a result a review of the recent evidences is needed to design a prevention strategy. The aim of this review was to determine the effect of square stepping exercise (SSE) for fall down injury among older adults compared with walking training or other exercises. An electronic database search for relevant rand...

We previously demonstrated that safflower seed extract (SSE) and its major antioxidant constituents, serotonin hydroxycinnamic acid amides, suppressed LDL oxidation in vitro, decreased plasma autoantibody titres to oxidized LDL and attenuated atherosclerotic lesion formation in apoE-deficient mice. In this report, we examined whether SSE, rich in serotonin derivatives, could affect markers of o...

This paper discusses the asymptotic behavior of regression models under general conditions. First, we give a general inequality for the difference of the sum of square errors (SSE) of the estimated regression model and the SSE of the theoretical best regression function in our model. A set of generalized derivative functions is a key tool in deriving such inequality. Under suitable Donsker cond...

Spin-momentum locking in protected surface states enables efficient electrical detection of magnon decay at a magnetic-insulator/topological-insulator heterojunction. Here we demonstrate this property using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), that is, measuring the transverse thermoelectric response to a temperature gradient across a thin film of yttrium iron garnet, an insulating ferrimagnet, and f...

The 2013M8.3 Okhotsk earthquake involves two primary mechanisms of deep-focus earthquake rupture, mineral phase transformation of olivine to spinel and thermal shear instability. Backprojection imaging of broadband seismograms recorded by the North American and European networks indicates bilateral rupture toward NE and SSE. The rupture paths of the NE segment and other regional M7 earthquakes ...